Improvement in printing and painting machines



2 Sheets-Sheet 1. O. GURRIBR. Printing and Painting Machine.

No; 208,892. Patehted Oct. 15, I878.

PETERS. PHOTOZEITHOGRAFHER. WASHINGTON. D C.

2 Sheets-Sheet 2. v 0. GURRIER; Printing and-Painting Machine.

.No. 208,892. I Patented-O'c't. 15;.1878.

A I a A 3 mg if UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

OSOEOLA GURRIER, OF NEWARK, NEW' JERSEY.

IMPROVEMENT IN PRINTING AND PAINTING MACHINES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 208,892, dated October15, 1878; application filed April 20, 1878.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, OSOEOLA OURRIER, of Newark, in the county of Essexand State of New Jersey, have invented a new and useful Improvement inPrinting and Painting Machines, of which the following is aspecification:

My invention consists in an attachment to the long mill, in common usefor painting enameled cloth, by which I am enabled to print or marblethe surface of the cloth at the same time that the final coat of enamelis applied to the cloth in the usual way, thus saving the labor ofimprinting patterns upon the cloth. by hand and subsequently varnishingthe same.

My method of efiecting this printing operation is to attach an engravedroll (so called) to the rear of the frame of e long mill as at presentconstructed, and 0 imprint the desired figures upon the enameled clothwhen ready for finishing.

The long mill being designed to operate upon a fabric of veryconsiderable length requires special appliances for drawing the cloththrough the machine, and peculiar supportsfor the cloth after paintingbefore it is delivered to the drier. These are shown in Figures 1 and 2of the drawing, where a side view of a long mill with my attachment isshown in Fig. 1 and a rear view in Fig. 2.

A is the usual framing of the machine; B B, the fabric to be coated withenamel and printed with figures or patterns at the same time. 0 is theknife, by which the enamel is spread over the cloth when suppliedthereto in a flood from the vessel 0. D is a spreader (so called) forsmoothing out the fabric sidewise before the enamel isapplied. E is thedrawing-roll, to which motion is applied to move it in the direction ofthe arrow, so as to draw the fabric from the reel F past the spreader Dand the knife 0. G G are supporting and guide rollers, by which thecloth is delivered from the machine after painting, the dry or cleanside of the cloth being always in contact with the rollers.

The mills in common use are operated thus: The reel of cloth F is placedin position, and the fabric is carried thence to the spreader D, underthe knife 0, around the rolls E, G G,

and G, in the manner marked at B B. The paint or varnish is applied in astream from the can G between the spreader D and knife 0, and thesurplus scraped off by the knife flows from each end of (J into vesselsplaced on shelf L.

The cloth is dried after the first and second coats, and the printedpattern with my attachment may be applied to the cloth at the same timethat it receives its final coat of varnish, the I knife 0 blurring orsoftening the printed lines of the pattern beneath the varnish in a verydesirable manner.

I will now describe my attachment as applied to the mills thusconstructed.

I attach two brackets, b, one to each of the posts A at the rear of themachine, and provide standards or bearings t t to slide upon the top ofthe bracket and carry the engraved roll N, feed-roll P, and paint-troughQ. I also provide an impression-roller, M, secured to the frame A insuitable bearings, and adjusted in relation to the roll N so that thecloth will be drawn smoothly over the roll M when it receives theimprint from roll N. This effect is produced by introducing an extraspreader, 27, between the reel F and roll M, the same being supported bythe posts A A beneath the roll M. The cloth thus reaches the roll M freefrom wrinkles, and passes thence to the spreader D and knife 0 in theusual manner.

To move the roll N into and out of contact with roll M, I secure racks cto thestaudards t, and provide pinions d upon a cross-shaft, c,revolving in journals in the brackets b beneath the standards 1.

The standards it t on the two brackets I) can be connected by a plate,a, for convenient removal from the machine; but this is not an essentialfeature of my device.

By means of a hand-crank the cross-shaft can be turned at pleasure, andthe roll N moved up to the roll M and pressed against it with anydesired force.

A distributing-roll, O, is shown, resting upon the rolls N and l? 5 but,if preferred, the feed-roll P may be revolved in contact with theprinting-roll, and have its superfluous paint removed by a doctor.

\Vlicn the material Bis liable to wrinkle,

to wit: reel F, supporting and guide rolls G,

vessel 0, printing-roll N, drawing-roll E, impression-roll M, Spreaders5D, and knife 0, substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I hereto subscribe myname in presence of two witnesses.

OSGEOLA CURRIER. I

XVitnesses THos. S. CRANE, E. I. ROBERTS.

